Full-Text Art & Design Reference Databases

Oxford Art Online
This major art reference source includes the full text of Grove Art Online, a 34-volume art dictionary, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

RISD Museum Object Research Guide     
An online guide to researching museum objects from the RISD Museum and elsewhere

Credo Reference
Credo includes over 585 titles from 70 publishers and covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference sources. Complete title List

SELECTED TITLES FROM CREDO REFERENCE:

A Biographical Dictionary of Artists, Andromedaandbda

The Bloomsbury Guide to Art

Critical Terms for Art Historyuchicagoah2003

The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Termsthat2003

The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artiststhaa


Print Reference Books - RISD LIBRARY REFERENCE COLLECTION, 1st FLOOR

Artspeak: a guide contemporary ideas, movements, and buzzwords 

30,000 years of art : the story of human creativity across time and space

Modern arts criticism

Women artists of color

Artspoke: a guide to modern ideas, movements & buzzwords, 1848-1944 

Art and artists in the 20th century 

New York Times guide to the arts of the 20th century

A Dictionary of modern and contemporary art

Selected works - Rhode Island School of Design, Musuem of Art

Dictionary of Artists / Benezit

North American Women artists of the 20th Century

Atlas of Western art history

Lives of the great 20th-century artists

The 20th century art book

Encyclopedia of comparative iconongraphy

Timelines of the arts and literature

Twentieth century artists on art

Ten precisionist artists : annotated bibliographies